Teenager who looked up festival as attack target detained for terror offences

A teenage Muslim convert who looked up the Isle of Wight Festival as a potential target for a terror attack has been detained for seven years.

He has now been sentenced to seven years’ detention with a one-year period of extended licence at the same court after he was convicted of one count of preparing acts of terrorism, three counts of disseminating terrorist publications and one count of possessing a knife in public. The teenager converted to Islam in late 2021, and five tutors who worked with him became concerned about his developing beliefs.

The same tutor also said the defendant told him he had become involved in an online anti-gay group “with Muslims in it” before his conversion. He asked the court to distinguish between “obsessive research and genuine preparation for acts of terrorism”.

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